Panorama from Quelccaya Ice Cap by Doug Hardy

This is a 360° perspective on the world as seen from the summit of Quelccaya Ice Cap, in the Cordillera Vilcanota of southern Peru.

Quelccaya has been studied since the early 1970s, with a major milestone achieved in 1983 when the glacier was drilled through to bedrock, yielding the first low-latitude ice core record. Further details can be found here:
www.geo.umass.edu/climate/quelccaya/diuca/paleoclimate/index.html 
Since 2003 an Automated Weather Station has operated at the site, continuing intermittent climate measurements begun in the 1970s. The station is visible in this scene, and in another GigaPan. More information is here:
quelccaya.blogspot.com /
To see map location at right, zoom out ("blank" appearance is snow). Several relatively well-known peaks are visible in this panorama, which provides views into Brazil and Bolivia, as well as Peru. Snapshots will be added to identify these.

Note the slightly wavy appearance of this large panorama, which is an artifact of the tripod not being perfectly level.